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Honorary Member
One Honorary Member may be selected each year by the Academy's Board of Trustees by affirmative vote of at least two-thirds of its members. The individual so honored possesses one or more of the following characteristics:
- has attained a position of eminence in the environmental engineering profession;
- has made a singular noteworthy contribution, or a sustained contribution, to the advancement of environmental engineering; and
- has performed outstanding service over a relatively long period of time in the advancement of the affairs of the Academy.
For the full list of eligibility criteria and information on how you can submit nominations for a worthy Environmental Engineer, click here.
2010 Honorary Member: George R. Crombie
George R. Crombie is a Senior Faculty Member for Public Works Administration in the School of Graduate Studies at Norwich University. He holds an A.S. and B.S. Degree from the University of New Hampshire and Master of Public Administration from Northeastern University in Boston, MA. He has served as Secretary of Environmental Affairs for the State of Vermont, Undersecretary of Environmental Affairs for Massachusetts, and a long time public works-utility director. Presently Mr. Crombie is the president-elect of the American Public Works Association.
Mr. Crombie has guided numerous award winning public works-environmental projects using a systems thinking approach that balances environmental, economic, and quality of life challenges. He was one of the original pioneers of sludge composting in the early seventies, member of the regional green gas initiative to trade carbon credits. A member of the EPA national committee on climate ready utilities working group, and selected by the Aspen Institute in a dialogue on "Sustainable Water Systems: Step One-Redefining the Nation's Infrastructure Challenge". In 2008, Public Works magazine named Mr. Crombie one of the 2008 trendsetters in the United States in spearheading the development of the Climate Change Collaborative in Vermont, bringing together government, universities, and business to meet the challenges of climate change and a green economy.
Over the course of his career, Mr. Crombie has published and lectured on public works and the environment. In the 2008 fall edition of Environmental Engineer he authored the feature article-Holistic Environmental Sustainability: The Next Frontier. He has received a number of awards including the APWA National Charles Walter Nichols Award for outstanding meritorious achievement in environmental field in the broadest sense, named by APWA as one of the Top Ten public Works Directors in the US and Canada, the Gold Leaf Award presented by the International Society of Arboriculture, and Jennings Randolph International Fellowship to study solid waste practices in Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
Past Winners
2009 -- Perry McCarty, Ph.D.
2009 -- Michael Rouse
2008 -- A. "Sek" Sekarajasekaran
2007 -- Daniel J. Gunaratnam
2006 -- James L. Barnard
2005 -- Xie Qingtao
2004 -- Bindu Nath Lohani
2003 -- Earnest F. Gloyna
2002 -- Vincent Bath
2001 -- Norihito Tambo
2000 -- Klaus R. Imhoff
1999 -- Harvey F. Ludwig
1994 -- Donald J. O'Connor
1991 -- Arthur C. Stern
1988 -- Daniel A. Okun
1983 -- Abel Wolman
1982 -- Stanley E. Kappe